On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 07:23 -0700, stuporglue wrote: > >If both are available for your platform, and it matters, you should do > >benchmarking and regression testing with both. If it doesn't matter as > >much, pick your favorite company. I personally prefer IBM. > > Well, only IBM's is available with Java 1.4.2, so I get that I guess :-) > > >To be clear, Blackdown is *not* open source. The source code is under > >the same Sun license that it's normally available under. Their binaries > >are under the same license as Sun too. So if you want to use Blackdown > >to control a nuclear reactor, you can't. > > I'll bet Sun would be really proud of their Java if I could > though...they'd probably even let me licence it. Now where can I get a > reactor...
According to their license agreement, they don't actually forbid the use of java in a nuclear facility, but they expressly disclaim all responsibilities and liabilities if you do. Kind of funny that this has been an explicit clause in their license for years. > > ~Michael -- ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
